Rodger Cuzner on Government Appointments

Mr. Speaker, it is not Mr. Crowley's credentials that are at issue here, it is his hard right-wing ideology. He has called equalization “a welfare trap for the provinces”. The finance minister has appointed him at a time when equalization reform is in the spotlight all over this country. Now Mr. Crowley comes in, an ideologue who wants to get rid of the program in its entirety.

Does this appointment confirm that the government maintains that Atlantic Canadians should continue to wallow in a culture of defeat?